A Window Built for Orchids: The Swiss Watchmaker Behind Vitrocsa.Read enough of what Australian architects have said about Vitrocsa and two ideas keep coming back: elegance, and how little of the window is left once the building is finished. With minimalism now a box to tick on a spec sheet, it seemed...
Casper Mueller Kneer Build a Perfume Fountain at the Heart of Caron’s New Paris Store.At the centre of Caron's new Paris store by Casper Mueller Kneer Architects sits the fountain, a full-height installation of hand-frosted, fluted glass tubes filled with perfume and lit from behind. Engineered and fabricated by Atelier...
No Botox: Raúl Sánchez Lets a Mataró Heritage Home Wear Its Age at La Casa del Pirata.Raúl Sánchez's La Casa del Pirata refuses to over-restore. Cracks stay put, wallpaper imperfections are left alone, and the channels carved for the wall lights remain raw—no Botox here. The tension between centuries-old pattern and...
Lilac by Bureau: 44 Square Metres, One Counter and Two Domestic Worlds.How many square metres does a home actually need? Bureau's Lilac, the smaller of two sibling apartments in Lisbon, puts the question front and centre. At 44 square metres, the refurbishment turns the old entrance hall into a kitchen, moves...
Sampling the 80s: The Ken Club in Paris by Rodolphe Parente and Marion Mailaender.Rodolphe Parente and Marion Mailaender pictured the new Ken Club as an ocean liner cut off from the world. The nearly 20-metre pool is lined with porthole windows and round skylights, the changing rooms flip the usual colour code, and a...
Madeleine Castaing Meets Manhattan: Inside Child Studio’s New York Debut.Behind the terracotta façade of a Gilded Age Manhattan landmark, Child Studio has completed their first hotel and first US project: The Twenty Two New York. Seventy-eight rooms, a private members' club and a tented rooftop bar all draw on...
Farrell Wray Architects Build a Concrete Gallery Around a Tree They Refused to Touch.Some sites come with a non-negotiable client, and at Marcellin College that client was a gum tree. Farrell Wray Architects' new flyover, connecting the school's junior and senior buildings in Bulleen, was designed and built without...
Ellison Studios Gives The Least Public Room In The House Its Best Furniture Yet.The bedroom is usually the last room in the house to get the good furniture, which is exactly the premise Ellison Studios has set out to overturn. The New Bedroom gathers sculptural beds, storage, seating and occasional pieces under one...
CiguĂ« Designs Satisfy’s First Store as Two Mirroring Spaces in Paris.Cult running brand Satisfy has opened its first permanent home, and it's not one store but two. Supply and Fuel Station face off across Paris' Rue de Saintonge, designed by longtime Yellowtrace favourite CiguĂ« as mirror images of one...
